Improvement in loom shuttle-guides



W. A. HASTINGS & M. C. GERALD..

Loom-Shuttle Guides.

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Patented June 2,1874.

UNITED STATES VILLIAM A. HASTINGS AND MILES O. GERALD, OF THOENDIKE, MASS.

IMPROVEMENT I N` LCDQM SHUTTLE-GUIDES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 151,4S7, dated June?, 1874; application iled May 19, 1873.

To all whom it 'may concern:

Be it known that we, ILLIAM A. HAST- INGs and MILES C. GERALD, of Thorndike, State of Massachusetts, have invented a Movable Shuttle-Guide for Looms, ot' which the following is a specification:

The object ot' our invention is to provide a loom with a movable shutt-le-guide, which is moved automatica-ily by the movement ot' the loom, or a portion of it, and' which moves away from the lathe, and is in proper position to serve as a guide to the shuttle while the latter is passing through the shed from one box to the other; but which, when the shuttle is in its box at either end of the lathe, is moved in against or nearto the lathe, so that it may be out of the way of the operator while adjusting threads or othermatters about the loom 5 all of which movement is accomplished by means of a crank-rod extending from the shaft to some part ot' the lathe, to which rod is loosely attached another rod pivoted to the lathe, a part ot which, extended to the front ot' the lathe, forms the shuttle-guide, so that the vertical movement ot' the crank-rod gives a horizontal or nearly horizontal movement of that part of the rod forming the shuttleguide, as will be hereinafter explained.

In the drawings, Figure lis a perspective view, illustrating my invention and its application to a loom; and Fig. 2 is a vertical section ofthe same.

A represents the ordinary lathe, consisting of the uprights D D, pivoted at their lower ends, and provided with the beam c and hand-rail'c, with the reed t secured between; and lis the crank-shaft, which gives motion to the lathe upon its pivots by means of the rods g g, extending from the cranks of the shaft lto the lathe. The reed is omitted in the drawing in Fig. 1, in order to show more clearly the application of the shuttle-guide to the lathe. The guide a extends along the front of the lathe, from one end ofthe reed to the other, and is bent back between the beam c and hand-rail c, past the ends of the reed, and downward, forming the arms a', which are pivoted to any suitable part ot" the lathe, as to the uprights D l), by passing around the rod f, and are connected to the rods g by an arm, h, at one or both ends of the loom, so that as the crank-shaft l is rotated, the arm h is given a vertical movement, imparting a lateral motion to the rod a., to and from the reed; and when the cranks s s are up and in a vertical position, as shown in Fig. 2, the rod a is in its extreme outward position in front of the reed, to operate as a guide to the sluittle as it\ passes through the shed from one box to the other, and preventing it from ilyin g out; but when the cranks s s are down, the rod a is in a position close to the reed, outotl the way ot the operator, when adjusting broken threads, &c., and the rod ay is moved from one position to the other, as above described, by the ordinary moi ements of the loom.

It is evident that other ordinary pivots might be used instead of the rodf, extending from one upright, D, to the other, as shown in the drawin What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination ot' crank-shaft Z s, conuecting-rods g, bent rod a 7L, and vibrating lathe A, the connecting-rods being so arranged as to operate the rod a through one or more arms, h, and rock the lathe at the same time, substantially as shown and described.

VILLIAM A. IlASTlNGS. MILES C. GERALD.

litnesses'z T. A. CURTIS, C. E. BUCKLAND. 

